My little cheerleader

Saturday was Katherine's first football game! She cheers for the k-2nd grade flag football team here in Harleton. I was so sad b/c I had to miss it. I had a mandatory Weight Watcher's staff meeting that I had to go to. Scott videotaped the whole thing for me though and took pictures. She was so cute. :) She had a blast!!!!!

Later that night we went out with some friends from our Sunday School class to eat at Chilli's, then go bowling. I bowled the lowest score of my life!! I was so embarressed!! We had fun though.

Reunion

We went to Burk this weekend for my 20th high school reunion. It was really neat to see everyone again. It's funny how much some people have changed and other's look exactly the same even after all these years.

We arrived Friday around 3:00pm. One of my best friends from my childhood, Gina Lederer (now Gina Butler) came to my mom's house at 6:00 so we could follow each other to the homecoming game. That was the first time I had seen her in probably about 12 years. We just held on to each other crying. It was the best moment of the whole weekend!!

After that me, Scott, Kimberly and Kirsten followed Gina to the game. Gina and I were having fun trying to figure out who was who among our old classmates.

We ended up leaving at half time though. Scott and I took the girls to get ice cream at Braums. While Gina took her daughter over to a friends house.

Saturday afternoon we went to the family picnic for about an hour. We left there early b/c my mom and Bill were going to take the kids to the fair. Plus Scott and I wanted to take advantage of having a babysitter. :) So we went and saw The Dark Knight again. This was Scott's 3rd time to see it! LOL After the movie we went shopping at Kohl's. Then we met Gina and her husband Troy for dinner at Texas Roadhouse. That was my second favorite moment of the whole weekend. Gina and I laughed so hard. It was just like old times.

I'm so glad I found my best friend again. I'm never gonna lose contact with her again!

Meanwhile, the kids had a blast at the fair. Kyrie finally got her tea party with maw maw that she's been waiting for since June!

We left Wichita around 7:30 Saturday night and got home at 12:15am.

Here are a few pictures from the weekend.

Getting ready for my reunion!

Our plans have changed so much over the past week as to whether or not we were going to my 20th high school reunion and if so, how long would we stay. I think we've finally made our decision on what we're going to do. The plan is to leave Friday morning and head to Wichita. Friday night we will go to the football game. Saturday afternoon there is a family picnic, then Saturday night is a get together just for the adults. We're going to leave there about 10:00pm and start heading home. We're going to stop on the other side of Dallas. We got some hotel rooms reserved for the night. Then Sunday morning we'll head out early to get home just in time for Scott to preach. :)
I feel bad b/c Katherine is going to miss her first football game, however I think she'll get over it. She'll still get to cheer in about 12 other games. :)

I'm really looking forward to seeing everyone again. However I'm nervous I won't recognize everyone. I'll definetly post pics and give an update when we get back!

Pam

Sorry I've been so bad lately

I've had the hardest time getting back into the habit of updating my blog. I'm going to try to do better.

Boy, the last few hours have been exciting. Hurricane Ike finally arrived here about 3:00pm. He had actually become a Tropical Storm by then. The winds were really blowing hard. It was actually kind of scary at times. I can't imagine what the people in Houston must have experienced. Our power went out about 5:30pm and didn't come back on until this morning at 9:30am. Scott made it fun for the kids though. He had anticipated us losing our power so he had bought them some glow sticks. You should have seen them jumping around playing with them. They were having so much fun. Then we all played a game of scrabble by candlelight. It was actually really nice. :)
For bedtime we put mattresses on our floor for all the kids. They didn't want to sleep in their rooms b/c it was too dark. Scott hung their glowsticks up on the ceiling. It was actually kind of pretty in there. LOL We didn't get any sleep though b/c it was so hot!

Everything is back to normal though now. I love electricity. :)

Pam

School and sickness

Monday-August 25th

I began school with Kirsten, Katherine and Kyrie. Everything went real smoothly. I had started last week with Kimberly since she's doing the Abeka DVD's now. It has been a real adjustment for us. She watches the video's from 8:00-2:00. (With a lunch break thrown in there.) Then has about 3 hours worth of homework each night! The teachers are good. We especially like her Bible and World History teacher. I'm not real crazy about her math teacher b/c she's all business and very impersonal. However I know she's going to learn alot this year. I admit, it's nice having the pressure taken off of me to teach her. :) All my job is now is to get her homework assignments written down for her and grade her papers. That's nice.

As a review, I'm now doing school with a child in 7th, 3rd, 1st, prek, and Chris. :)


Wednesday-August 27th

About midnight last night I started having all the symptoms of a stomach virus. I'm sure I don't have to go into details b/c you probably know what all kinds of things I'm talking about. Anyway, it has continued all day today! I've been laying in bed b/c if I get up I lose it. (If you know what I mean.)
Everyone longs for a day when you can just stay in bed and rest, however I'd take a day of craziness and running then be stuck in bed with the stomach virus. :(
Pray for me please.

Pam

Fireproof

Scott and I went and saw a special screening of the new movie Fireproof that is coming out September 26th. I HIGHLY,HIGHLY, HIGHLY recommend this movie!!! Get a babysitter and go with your spouse. It will help those who are having problems in their marriage and make stronger those who have great marriages. It's funny, sad, (you'll definetly need a box of tissues) and has action. Everything that makes a good movie. Here is the link to the site to see a trailor and get other information about the movie.http://www.fireproofthemovie.com/
Or you can scroll down to the bottom of my blog to get more info about the movie.
Scott is going to do a 6 week Bible Study for couples after the movie comes out that is designed by the makers of the movie. It will show clips of the movie during the study. It's going to be really neat.

Pam

Canton

I FINALLY got to go to the Canton First Monday trade days! Donna and Kandace went with me. We had alot of fun. I bought a Pug T-shirt and a bag for Katherine and Kyrie's dance shoes. Donna and Kandace found some goodies too. It was about 105 degrees out, but that didn't stop us. LOL
The best part about today was I got to snuggle with a teeny, tiny 8 week old Pug!! I wanted her sooooooooooooooo bad!!! She only cost $275! I called Scott and asked if I could get her. He said he would think about it. So if he says yes then I'm heading back up there to get her!!

Pam